12 Days of Christmas! Day 9: Peppermint Bark and Gingerbread Houses!

Yesterday our friends came over and we made gingerbread houses! Yup. I've gotten too lazy to make a big 12 Days of Christmas! post. We struggled to keep it up, but ultimately we finished them. Here's ours.

After that, we frosted cookies! One funny thing to note was when they came out of the oven they got darker every batch. I wasn't that good at frosting. Here's mine.

Oh yeah! And we made peppermint bark! We hammered ziploc bags of peppermint until it was powder.

And then we put a tray of liquid chocolate in the freezer. After it's solid, we put peppermint powder on it and leave it in the freezer again. Here's the finished product.

After they left we went to a couple stores to do some last-minute Christmas-shopping, and one of the gifts I bought was for another Yankee Swap. After that, we went to the church to hang out with friends and then I was dropped off to the pastor's house to go to a teen homegroup Bible study... only to find that not much else was coming and then the host canceled it. But the people who were there and I played Smash Bros. Brawl. And we had fun.

On the 9th day of Christmas, these things happened to me: We made Christmas sweets, I went caroling at a nursing home, I went to Andrew's party, I saw The Force Awakens again... I WENT CAROLING! I watched The Force Awakens, I went to Wednesday homegroup, I did Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and I made Christmas card art with glee!

12 Days of Christmas! Day 4: Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

(Sorry I didn't post this yesterday... I came home too late)
Yesterday, I got up around 8:30 and after a while, I started school with reading Star Wars Jedi Apprentice: The Dark Rival. chapters 1 and 2. Those were short. After that, I cleaned the bathrooms, and then wrapped a gift for Christmas.

After mom got off the computer, I finally got to math... and I was way too sidetracked. I started at around 12 PM and ended at around 2 PM. And it wasn't a whole math lesson! I continued school after that. Then we went to the church to do art class! We didn't finish the Christmas cards on Monday, so they told us to come again today on Thursday to do that. We went there, and we didn't really "finish" the Christmas cards, but we cut the art out and glued it on folded paper.

After that, we made new art on a Christmas card for a neat flower. I am not proud of it, but other people liked it.

While we were there, me and my art class teacher talked about Star Wars. one of the the things she told me was that she actually went to Tunisia in Africa, where the Tatooine parts of A New Hope were filmed! I'm jealous! So we finished art class, and mom told me we were going to Job Lots for Christmas shopping. She told me that they have everything there! And I was like... "No they don't! I've been there!" but she went anyway. Turns out it was farther than she thought. But then I saw Charles here, and I was like what a coincidence! And then he told me "We're going to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens!" And I was like "Are you serious??" What added even more to the surprise was that I thought people could only watch The Force Awakens on the 17th if they're lucky winners or something. Oh my gosh! First, we went to Wendy's and ate dinner there. And then we went to Target to look at stuff while we're waiting to see the movie. Then we went to Cinemagic around an hour early.

There was a big line that didn't budge for a while, and then it moved quickly. While we were in the theater, watching the ads, Andrew and Isaiah came to watch, too! The movie? ... ... ... Without spoilers, it was the most awe-inspiring experience in a movie ever. I was blown away. AND I'M GONNA SEE IT AGAIN ON SATURDAY!!

We went to Andrew and Isaiah's house, and we watched some hilarious videos called Star Wars Bad Lip Readings. Then Charles brought me home REALLY late. And I went to sleep around 3:00 AM.

On the 4th day of Christmas, these things happened to me: I saw The Force Awakens, I went to Wednesday homegroup, I did Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and I made Christmas card art with glee!

12 Days of Christmas! Day 1: Christmas Card Art Class!

Guess what! I'm starting a new series on my blog! Technically, it's nothing new, because I've done it before a couple years ago on my old, outdated blog but it's new on here! For 12 days from December 14-25 I am posting public journals with pictures on this blog! One big difference with this and the one I did a couple years ago was that the old one was littered with Youtube videos of what I watched or played. And this won't be. Rather, I'll post pictures of what I watched or played. Enjoy!

Today, I woke up to my 3DS alarm at 8:30, and hit the snooze button multiple times. I got up around 9:15. It started as an average school day, where I started out with silent reading, which was chapters 3-4 of Star Wars: Queen of the Empire by Paul Davis and Hollis Davis. Those chapters were interesting and funny. After that, I ate a couple snacks, and I did my Bible reading, which was Hebrews 12-13 and Jude. Those chapters were interesting and healthy. After that, I did my math.

And while I was doing math, I ate lunch, which was Ramen soup. Mom told me at around 3:15 we were leaving to the library before we go to the church for a special art class session for making Christmas cards. So at 2 PM I had an hour and 15 minutes to finish school. I started out with doing more of my rough draft for a report on the Pearl Harbor attack. Next, I did my Language Arts, which was finishing a chapter of The Hiding Place, answering questions on it, taking vocabulary from it, and other stuff. But I got a headache, so I took a shower and I couldn't finish it. We also couldn't go to the library before the art class. We went to the church, and the art class was fresh and fun! We did things like rolling paint on a board then printing it on paper, and doing the same with a gel board! Here are the ones I made. 

After that, we went to Subway and Sophie and mom had dinner from there while I had Chunky Soup for dinner. Throughout the day I played the video games Pokémon Ruby, Super Smash Bros 3DS and Splatoon. The game I most played was Smash 3DS, where I beat Classic Mode on the highest difficulty for the second time ever! After I wrote these words, we played a special game where we each pick a book and take turns taking sentences from them and putting them into a silly story. Here's the one we did today:

There was once a little girl named Mary. They both lay back on the steps.After talking for a few minutes, I said, "Tom, you obviously run a pretty good business." "Oh, no!" There were some sounds that slowly faded away. Once the kids were back in the car, they all started chanting, "McDonalds! McDonalds!" Then John saw something. Right then, though he really wasn't being careful; he just wanted the guys to agree with him. You'll find some terrific deals at estate sales and auctions but you have to be careful. All this time Grandmother was busy. If you think Chris and Willy should leave and come back some other time, turn to page 8. Also, if you;re sitting in a big mess right now and simply cannot afford to make even the minimum payments on your debt, don't lose hope! Mary lay in bed and didn't have to do a thing. Christ took a deep breath. "Gotta buy a house! Gotta buy a house! Mary is getting a little stronger every day," he said.

Taken from the books Busy Times, The Hidden Staircase, and Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money.

What did you think? Crazy, huh? Well, we had fun. Mom said it was her least favorite of the ones we did, but it was still funny. I found out that Facebook is doing a special thing where you take your profile picture and put a lightsaber in it to show that you are a true Star Wars fan. Coincidently, I already had a profile pic that had me covering my right eye with a Subway glowstick lightsaber, so that fit perfectly.

 

After that, I worked on my video My Top 6 Favorite Star Wars Movies, which I'm hoping to upload to Youtube tomorrow. And it's getting late now, so I should get to bed. Goodnight.

On the first day of Christmas, this thing happened to me: I made Christmas card art with glee.

The Science Fair!

(Sorry about my long absence. For one thing, the computer wasn't working. Another thing was I was like "Nah, not gonna write about Superbowl") So for a while my sister had been working on a science project. It was about whether hamsters and rabbits had good memory or not. So she and her friend made a maze with food at the end. And that project was for a science fair that was going on at the church. Yesterday we went there and there were a lot of interesting things! Like for example there was an exhibit on Alexander Gram Bell that had a few of those homemade cup-and-string phones. The kid who worked on it let me try them out and what I said through it was "This is the CIA. You owe us money." LOL. They had us vote on which was the best exhibit and I voted for a volcano display! So after that there was a bunch of speeches. One of them was a comedy speech about how grown-ups make these rules for different reasons than they tell us. For example, "They say you should eat lots of vegetables because they're healthy. But the real reason is to keep them under control. They were monstrous and ate us in prehistoric times!" LOL. So yeah, it was great at the science fair. Here are some pics. 

Well, see you next post! 

Gingerbread House!

So yesterday my mom went to the store and she came back with... A gingerbread house kit! So today we got to put it together! First, we put the gingerbread pieces together. It was kinda hard and it fell apart once! Argh! Next, we decorated it with frosting and candy! Now it looks so tempting...... And we stuck on some gingerbread guys! Sophie accidentally broke the male one, so I frosted it back together and I decided to make him a zombie by not decorating the face with candy like Sophie did. (gingerbread zombies.... That should be a thing! THE WALKING BROKEN: Coming to a theater near NOBODY!) I just wanna eat this gingerbread house up! Here are some pics!

Church Chistmas Party!

 So yesterday we went to this Christmas party at our church! We had lots of fun. There was a dinner with ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, and other stuff. There was also lots of snacks. Another thing there was a couple of raffles that I signed up for, and I was one of the winners! The prize I chose was a mug with a reindeer in it. (there were better prizes, some of them being $25 gift cards, but I was one of the late winners) There were some people making ornament crafts, and the kids played some games. So here are some pics.

 

 That was a lot more pics than I thought I had... Only 11 days 'till Christmas! Everyone gets 2 turtle doves!